Opinion: One year into the job, Mike Pompeo is good at flattering President Trump—and little else
Aaron David Miller is vice president for new initiatives and a distinguished scholar at the Wilson Center, and the author ofRichard Sokolsky is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former member of the Secretary of State's Office of Policy Planning.Mike Pompeo—Donald Trump’s second secretary of state—has been in the job for almost a year.
The good news for Pompeo is that he’s very much in the game—he has access to Trump and enjoys his confidence. The bad news: He’s doing very little with the issues he owns, and together with Trump he’s helped dig some deep holes for American policy toward America’s European allies, while making little progress on Iran and North Korea. As for Saudi Arabia, that’s another mess entirely.
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